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DescriptionWant to get closer to the business? As eRB Senior Legal Counsel with Reckitt, you’ll be at the heart of the decisions that impact a leading global business.
eRB Senior Legal Counsel
Slough, Berkshire
Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package
As Senior Ecomm Innovation Legal Counsel at Reckitt, you’ll be at the heart of the decisions that impact a leading global business. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and entrepreneurial team in Reckitt’s fastest growing global e-commerce business unit, eRB. Inspired by Reckitt’s purpose to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world through our products, the ambition of the eRB global business unit is to democratize access to the highest quality Hygiene, Health & Nutrition products through our amazing, globally recognised brands.
You’ll succeed because…
• You are a qualified lawyer with a strong track record of providing ecomm legal advice. You have prior in-house experience in a high tech innovative ecomm business.
The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.
• You have supported novel go to market models across ecomm. You are comfortable in advising senior stakeholders on mitigation plans for identified risks in go to market models.
• You have the vision to lead and support the development of plug and play models for global roll-out and adoption, allowing the business to adopt new initiatives at scale and speed.
• You can draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including SAAS, digital platform agreements, digital marketing agreements and supply chain agreements. You can proficiently identify anti-trust risks.
• You can advise on consumer law and e-commerce related topics and can advise on the continually evolving e-commerce regulatory landscape and how it applies practically.
• You have a good working knowledge of data protection and privacy laws and their application to online retail.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity, working at speed and collaborating within a global multinational environment including different stakeholders, functions and business units as well as demonstrating a high degree of cultural awareness and sensitivity. You are experienced with working with stakeholders across the organisation including tax, finance, corporate legal services, supply chain, SQRC, compliance and brand protection.
• You have M&A experience.
• You’re an impactful business partner with a high EQ and excellent presentation skills. You know how to effectively communicate your expertise in a way that others can absorb and act on.
• You are analytical and commercially-minded, able to weigh up legal risk against business aims to give pragmatic advice.
You’ll love it because…
• You’re fearless and pro-active with a strong sense of urgency and a bias for action.
• You’ll have the freedom to make a difference.
• You’ll put your own ideas into practice whilst being a leader in championing our corporate compliance policies and procedures, particularly around the topics of sustainability and the environment.
• The products you help us get out there will allow people to live healthier lives and have happier homes and you’ll thrive on the front line of our mission, our purpose and our fight.
• Our dynamic, achievement/ownership-driven culture will bring the very best out of you, every day.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.